I support Chelsea, even though I'm not english nor do I live in the UK. I am, however, living in Mexico for the semster, where I hope to find a bunch of Man City, ARSEnal and Spurs games here on TV because of Nery Castillo, Carlos Vela, and Giovanni Dos Santos are all living gods here in Mexico (especially the later two) and hopefully I'll find a good place to watch Chelsea as well.

I hope we have a good season, and we pick up atleast one more player before the window closes (If there is a god PLEASE help Chelsea sign David Villa). Bosingwa and Deco (if he can find his form) look to be great, and I hope we can do well this year. I'm also curious as to why we havent used Ivonavic at all yet we don't let him go off to Milan....Scolari probably won't use him, so why not loan him to Milan and let him get match practice?

On another related note, does anyone want to join in on a fantsy league? I have an account over on the Premier League website and I'm already part of a few leagues and perhaps someone here could set up a TT Fantsy league over on the site, or at Yahoo or ESPN or something like that? I think that would be cool...

....I'm also curious as to why we havent used Ivonavic at all yet we don't let him go off to Milan....Scolari probably won't use him, so why not loan him to Milan and let him get match practice?..

Totally agree!

It actually looks like we're sending him off on loan for this season and Milan have the option of buying him at the end of the season which I think is crazy. He was brought in January and didn't play because of came from Russia where the season was over and he was unfit. He's the new Vidic so to let him go without even playing a single competitive game is absurd.

Okay. Time for this morning's picture... Calling all Italians!... this morning's picture for you:

If there are any of you out there, it would be great to have Juve, Roma, AC, Inter, Lazio fans, etc here on the squad. As someone who grew up with Serie A when they 1st showed it here in the UK on Channel 4 some yeas ago every Sunday afternoon - when it was probably the greatest league in the world - the days of Baresi and Baggio - I've kept up a respect and interest for the game over there, and would be interested to hear what's happening now... who the are the new young stars to look out for?... who might battle it out for the Serie A title?... who looks good in The Champion's League?... the national team now (as good as the lot above ^ ?), etc.

Okay. Time for this morning's picture... Calling all Italians!... this morning's picture for you:

If there are any of you out there, it would be great to have Juve, Roma, AC, Inter, Lazio fans, etc here on the squad. As someone who grew up with Serie A when they 1st showed it here in the UK on Channel 4 some yeas ago every Sunday afternoon - when it was probably the greatest league in the world - the days of Baresi and Baggio - I've kept up a respect and interest for the game over there, and would be interested to hear what's happening now... who the are the new young stars to look out for?... who might battle it out for the Serie A title?... who looks good in The Champion's League?... the national team now (as good as the lot above ^ ?), etc.

To be completely honest I know very little about his game. He played second fiddle to Bojan Krkic last season and didn't feature much. But what I have seen of him I've come to view him as a Ronaldinho-esque player who kind of floats between the strikers and the attacking midfielders. He's fairly quick, is a bit flashy (he was tipped as the next Ronaldinho back in his Barcelona days) and tends to try to be C. Ronaldo or Ronaldinho and fake defenders with fancy footwork. His main weakness is just that, and he tends to take too many shots. When on form, however, he's great, just watch his last game with Barcelona at the end of last season. He scored three and set up another one and just flat out dominated on the pitch.

As for the fantsy league over on the Premier League website, I just started one. Here is the league ID number:

Er, it was me enquiring about Dos Santos. Cheers for the reply. BTW, Good luck with your fantasy league venture.

All squad members,

Following on from SempreSami's example (and linking in somewhat tenuously to this morning's Italian theme - he played for a large chunk of his career at Juve; and his most infamous game was his last international against Italy). Here's a compilation of 'The King' (Platini simply called him that), the maestro they called 'Zizou', the player that if I had to vote on who was the very greatest player of recent times I think my vote would go to him - Zinedine Zidane...

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No problem. It should be very interesting how he lines up with Modric and Bent and the rest of the strikers. I'll be watching very closely come Sunday morning. Who do you guys play against? We're home at the Bridge against Hull City, I believe (I'm probably wrong!). Interesting, however, is that you have Arsenal pretty early this season, should be a great match, and if I can't find it on Mexican TV I'll eat my own head (probably won't have to, however, the two hottest properties in Mexican football up against eachother in one of the biggest derbies in football HAS GOT to be on Mexican TV).

To EVERYONE: JOIN MY FANTSY LEAGUE!!! PLEASE ENTER THIS NUMBER ON THE PREM. LEAGUE WEBSITE!!!:

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No problem. It should be very interesting how he lines up with Modric and Bent and the rest of the strikers. I'll be watching very closely come Sunday morning. Who do you guys play against? We're home at the Bridge against Hull City, I believe (I'm probably wrong!). Interesting, however, is that you have Arsenal pretty early this season, should be a great match, and if I can't find it on Mexican TV I'll eat my own head (probably won't have to, however, the two hottest properties in Mexican football up against eachother in one of the biggest derbies in football HAS GOT to be on Mexican TV).

To EVERYONE: JOIN MY FANTSY LEAGUE!!! PLEASE ENTER THIS NUMBER ON THE PREM. LEAGUE WEBSITE!!!:

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I wish it was Hull! It's Portsmouth who are looking to be around the top 5 this year so it's a nasty one first one up